King David

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    Thy great leaves enfold
    The ancient beards, the helms of ruby and gold
    Of the crowned Magi; and the king whose eyes
    Saw the Pierced Hands and Rood of elder rise
    In Druid vapour and make the torches dim....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Our whole life is startingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)